Year 3

Year 3 Curriculum Projects

YEAR 3 PROJECT - Emperors and Empires

In the Emperors and Empires project, your child will learn about the growth and decline of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. They will discover the absolute power of the Roman emperors and study the hierarchies of Roman society and the Roman army. They will study the first invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 BC and the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43. They will learn about Boudicca’s rebellion, Hadrian’s Wall and the Romanisation of Britain, including how Christianity came to Britain and investigate the legacy of Roman Britain in their local area.

Memorable Experience: Living Museum

History: Chronology; Everyday life in ancient Rome; Founding of Rome; Power and rule; Roman Empire; Significant emperors; Social hierarchy; Roman army; Roman invasion of Britain; Significant people – Boudicca; Everyday life in Roman Britain; Romanisation of Britain; Roman withdrawal; Roman legacy

This project is also supported by mini projects in; 

Science: Plant Nutrition and Reproduction; Light and Shadows

Art and Design: Beautiful Botanicals

Design and Technology: Greenhouse

Computing: lessons derived from D.A.R.E.S

Music: lessons derived from Kapow

PE: lessons derived from TeamThemeKent

PSHE: lessons derived from JIGSAW content

RE:  lessons derived from Kent SACRE scheme and Cornerstones RE projects 

 

More information about the Year 3 Curriculum can be found in the YEAR 3 Long Term Plan 2025-2026  document found below.

Year 3 Key Information

In Year 3, PE lessons for Term 6 are timetabled for Tuesday and Wednesday.

Please make sure kits are in school and earrings are removed. 

 

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English

W/c 8th June 2026

We will continue work on our 'Escape from Pompeii' narrative unit.  We will be using relative clauses, verb openers, prepositions, rhetorical questions, the power of three and direct speech.

We also continue to work on our reading comprehension.  This week our comprehension is on Gladiators.

 

We will complete a SPaG assessment and will enjoy a couple of reading comprehensions about life during the Roman time period.

 

We will continue to work on our punctuation and grammar through daily starter activities.  This can be supported through access to Grammar Arcade on EdShed.

 

Spellings

'k' phoneme

Spellings will be shared on Monday 1st June and dictation will be on Tuesday 9th June.

Acorns

cat

kit

sky

skin

back

track

quit

quarter

walk

talk

school

 

Conkers

increase

sky

back

track

chicken

quit

quarter

walk

talk

chalk

school

technology

 

Pine Cones

increase

peculiar

accident

sky

back

crack

track

chicken

quilt

quit

quarter

quick

walk

talk

chalk

school

chorus

chemist

echo

character

technology

 

We are continuing to work on their spelling mastery which can be accessed via EdShed.  Please continue to support this at home.  For information on how this supports spelling please take a look at https://www.spellingshed.com/en-nz/mastery-zone 

 

 

 

 

Maths

W/c 8th June 2026

This week we continue with our 'Time unit'.  We will look at:

• Years, months and days
• Days and hours
• Hours and minutes - use start and end times
• Hours and minutes - use durations
• Minutes and seconds

Telling time is a crucial life skill.  Please support your child by practising this at home (ideally using an analogue clock).  This site provides an interactive analogue clock should you not have access to one: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock 

 

Please encourage your child to access Times Table Rock Stars at home. Their log in is the same as their Numbots log in. Their focus should currently be on the 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables.

 

Below are links to Infinity quizzes to help further embed in class learning.

https://infinity.whiteroseeducation.com/Home 

 

Additional Information

Thank you to our school trip helpers and to every family who supported our recent reading session.

 

Homework

In line with our homework policy, our homework folders were sent home on Friday 5th June to help consolidate in class learning and promote home-school partnership.  Completed folders need to be returned by Wednesday 10th June.  Thank you for your support with this - it will be of great benefit to your children.

 

Children need their reading book and reading record in school every day. 

Every child should have a coat each day - we believe that getting outside (no matter the weather) is important.  

PE kits should include a spare set of socks and a PE jumper/hoodie.

 

Show and Tell - back to Fridays!

Show and Tells are welcome on Fridays but these should be recent personal achievements or linked to our current class learning.

 

Cosy up and read will now come home

Tuesday-Thursday

and

Friday-Monday

 

 

 

 

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We encourage the children to:

• Read every day for at least 15 minutes.
• Spend 15 minutes on TTRS or White Rose Infinity.
• Access their spellings on Spelling Shed
• Additional work may be sent home in a folder to help support your child with in class learning.